Firewheel Design | Fueling Icon and Interface Design for Web 2.0

RapidWeaver

Realmac Software recently released the latest version of their acclaimed RapidWeaver web publishing tool, and with that release they debuted a new desktop icon courtesy of us. Very nice, indeed.

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Cornell University

One of the most visited pages at Cornell University's website is it's weather page. As part of an update to that page, Firewheel Design was contracted to create a new series of weather icons to show Ithaca's current conditions. To be honest, we became a bit envious of their circumstances, since our summer weather here in Texas ranges from "Sunny and Hot" to "Sunny, Humid, and Hot." We wouldn't use the snow icon much here in Fort Worth, but we think they look awesome none-the-less.

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SlideShowPro

“Nothing short of brilliant. Josh and company took an abstract concept and made it comprehensible, memorable, and beautiful. Superb service and quality. Gave me everything I needed, and then some.”
— Todd Dominey

A refreshing project, Dominey Design commissioned us to design an iconic identity for their amazing SlideShowPro Flash plug-in. The challenge was to creatively communicate the concepts of photography and multimedia while avoiding stereotypical images of slides and matted pictures. We played off of the visuals in SlideShowPro's slick interface to craft this icon for their excellent product.

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Opalis

“Firewheel provided us with top quality design, timely delivery, and excellent customer service. I highly recommend their services.”
— Louise Johns

Opalis Software, Inc. delivers solutions that automate IT operations for over 1,600 customers worldwide. Their flagship product, OpalisRobot, is an object-oriented workflow environment which provides automation and integration for enterprise data centers.

Firewheel Design was tasked with overhauling more than 250 icons for OpalisRobot's unique interface. More than mere buttons, these images were intended for use in visual "maps" that describe the user-created cause-and-effect chain. Each icon had to convey its meaning — often a complex and abstract one — clearly and succinctly.

Firewheel developed a symbolic system that allowed us to distinguish between events, tasks and status reports. The final results are perfectly suited to the Windows XP environment while providing OpalisRobot with a distinct look and feel.

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Bakewoods

Besides selling great coffee, Bakewoods—a premium coffee retailer—independently supports a group of worldwide coffee growers by offering them a fair wage and reasonable working conditions.

Through our friends at Glitschka Studios we were contracted to create new web presence for the growing coffee company. Glitschka Studios supplied the excellent identity work and we delivered a rich web experience. Warm colors remind you of that last cappucino with the dallop of foam.

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Squarespace

Squarespace, a revolutionary web publishing service, provides a sophisticated web-based application for developing and managing websites (including blogs).

Firewheel Design was contracted to design a series of XHTML + CSS based templates for use within their publishing system. The templates can be easily modified by the end subscriber to fit their needs. A total of six templates were delivered with several color themes.

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GameCrazy

“Firewheel design has been a true joy to work with and the designs are excellent. Working with them is a fast and efficient process and feedback is readily provided. We knew what we'd be getting and when it would arrive.”
— Scott Huber

GameCrazy, the nation's fastest growing video-game retailer, contracted us to design this small suite of icons—representing various gaming consoles—for their website navigation. We combined vibrant colors with an isometric pixel-grid to create these brilliant icons.

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Groxis

“Working with Firewheel Design has been a real pleasure... We are eager to start working with them again.”
— Jean-Michel Decombe, CTO

Groxis, a pioneer in visual information software technology and recently named to the AO100 Top Private Companies for 2004, hired Firewheel Design to create a series of fresh, easy-to-use interface elements and icons for their critically acclaimed Grokker software.

The sample at left provides a glimpse at a portion of the work designed for Groxis. Subtle shades of color and simple metaphors help define the Grokker UI.

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Firm

“...A great experience. Very professional from start to finish, and the icons speak for themselves. Very impressive!”
— Einar Qvale

FIRM is the world's leading provider of online survey & reporting software. The company's state of the art web-based Confirmit survey & reporting software is used for customer and employee satisfaction surveys as well as market research surveys.

Firewheel Design was contracted by FIRM to design and deliver a suite of icons for their web-based application. Unique challenges included researching and developing a visual hierarchy in order to link parent, child, and other relating icons to each other.

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Yellowlane

“2nd Place Winner” — Pixelpalooza 2004
“Grand Prize Winner” — Pixelpalooza 2002
“Grand Prize Winner” — Pixelpalooza 2000

Since 1999, Josh Williams' Yellowlane has been the home of some of the highest quality personal-use icons on the web. Bold style, brilliant color, and creative themes have been central to their broad popularity. Just one glance, and you'll understand why they've been called freaking gorgeous.

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